“ --- you’ve got to be fucking kidding me...” Was all Ace found the strength to say as a certain brazen brunette sashayed her way through a crowded club and directly towards him. He knew it was Vegas. Hell, he’d recognize the back of her head in the middle of Times Square on New Year’s Eve. He couldn’t move, frozen to his seat with each arm around a nearly-naked exotic dancer. Fuck, she got me. She won. His mind raced.
It was always a competition with them. Who could hate the other more? Who could love the other more? Who could prove the other wrong? Who could make their point and win the bet? This time, it was Vegas. She had the upper-hand; she caught Ace off guard and he was vulnerable. As the woman, the love of his life whom he never thought he’d see again, made a beeline to his VIP section, he didn’t have a plan. And that was so unlike Ace Bentley.
He pushed the two blondes, whose limbs were strung all over his body, away from him and sprang to his feet. “FUCK. Get the fuck out of here! Now!” Ace shouted to those who sat in his section; his fingers tugging on the roots of his hair in frustration. He wasn’t going to let his crew see him emasculated. No fucking way. Ace shot back the rest of his whiskey, a relatively full glass. Maybe if Vegas was having a good day, she’d spare his balls. He wouldn’t get his hopes up though. “I’m fucking dead.”











